Yesterday we had a discussion about a way of reframing the Radical model. After having slept over it, I woke up with an image of a building where,
The words Meaning and Belonging are the two axes of the “ground floor” (actually, I had them as the top floor, but Jose called it the “ground floor”). It represents the people fundamentals,
Decentralization and Transparenccy are the axes of the “roof” meaning that 1) the house has no boss in it and 2) everything is transparent. By having all information available to everybody, it makes sure that any potential “gaming” of the system is apparent to everybody and it gets dealt with.
Finally, experimentation, underlying all practices, holds up the house. This means that whether an experiment worked as you expected it or not, you always learn from it. Knowledge holds up the house.
Altogether Now
Altogether, they make up the Radical Foundation house,
Explicit Alignment
Explicit Alignment goes inside each house, depicted here as floors between the ground floor and to the roof.
- There is one Impact. Changing the impact is major: it is the equivalent of making up a new company.
- There is one Purpose, although it may change (the gray translucent color under Purpose represents a past Purpose).
- There are many Missions, one after another and many in parallel.
Everything else is a Practice,
- Practices change from company to company.
- They change over time.
- They are not integral to the Radical model.
Examples of practices,
- The RADs! mobile app.
- Explicit Relationships.
- Parboiled legal structure.
- etc.
Many Houses
What the uncomfortable discussion made me see is that there may be many houses, some of them based on the template model. The important thing is the effect it has on people’s lives and on our world.
A Template House
For example, a template house would be like this,
A Framing
Our intention is that this “framing” of the Radical model be appealing enough to build specific houses where what changes is the inside stuff, but not its floor, columns, or roof.
